NAVCA News - Big Society
The following news articles were posted within the "Big Society" category.
NAVCA welcomes Nick Hurd’s response to Hodgson
NAVCA has welcomed the interim response by Nick Hurd MP, the Minister for Civil Society, to Lord Hodgson's Charities Act Review. In the letter sent to Lord Hodgson, Nick Hurd uses a traffic light system to indicate whether he believes the recommendations should be broadly accepted (green), need more work to be done before he can accept or reject them (amber) or should not be accepted (red)....
NAVCA members are providers of opportunity
The Cabinet Office has published a document reviewing the progress it has made in the twelve months since it launched the Giving White Paper, in May 2011. The document also sets out priorities for the next year. The report includes a mention of the Transforming Local Infrastructure scheme, which it says supports the providers of opportunity....
NAVCA welcomes Eric Pickles action on Nottinghamshire cuts
Joe Irvin, NAVCA's Chief Executive, has welcomed comments by Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government that he will make public his disapproval of the cuts Nottinghamshire County Council has made in their voluntary sector budget. Eric Pickles also said that he will be writing to the Council. The comments came in response to a question from Joe Irvin at the New Local Government Network (NLGN) annual conference on 25 January....
Parliamentary Big Society report released
The House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee has published its report into the Big Society. The report examines how Whitehall is responding to the Big Societyand whether the government is on track to meet its objectives. NAVCA submitted evidence to the committee and the report extensively quotes Kevin Curley, NAVCA's Chief Executive, who gave evidence to the committee....
NAVCA proposes changes to Big Lottery policy directions
NAVCA urges members to support changes to the Big Lottery policy directions...
Localism Bill victory
NAVCA is celebrating victory for the voluntary and community sector following the publication of the amended Localism Bill. The amended Bill has been published following the House of Lords report stage. Despite intense lobbying by the Countryside Landowners Association (CLA) to reduce the length of time that charities would be able to exercise their Right to Buy, the government has agreed with NAVCA that a six months period is the minimum period needed to make the Assets of Community Value opportunity work....
NAVCA urges Frances Maude to keep the government’s lottery promise
NAVCA Chief Executive, Kevin Curley, has written to the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude MP, to urge him to deliver on the government’s promise to direct more of the Big Lottery Fund’s money to charities and community groups. The current consultation on the Big Lottery Fund policy directions, launched by the Cabinet Office, proposes BIG funding should go ‘primarily’ to the voluntary and community sector. Previously the Government said that BIG lottery funding should exclusively go to the voluntary and community sector....
NAVCA publishes Open Public Services consultation response
NAVCA has published its response to the government’s Open Public Services White Paper, which sets out the government’s plans to reform public services. The government sees it as part of their Big Society agenda. They believe it hands power to communities and ends the top-down ‘government knows best’ approach. Critics have called the plans "back-door privatisation"....
Labour's Charities spokesperson addresses CORE
Roberta Blackman-Woods MP, Shadow Cabinet Officer Minister, addressed NAVCA's Chief officers Residential Event (CORE) in Nottingham on 17 June and offered a critique of Big Society and an insight into the Labour policy on the 'good society' and local voluntary action....
NAVCA Chief Officer Survey 2011
NAVCA has published the results of its 2011 Chief Officer Survey. NAVCA carry out the survey every year to find out Chief Officers’ views on key and topical issues....
Social Investment and the Big Society Bank
NAVCA has produced a briefing for members on the government's plans to create a Big Society Bank. NAVCA envisages that this type of finance will be a minority interest for small local organisations, although there are potential roles for NAVCA members as financial intermediaries and as investment readiness intermediaries. However there is still a need for support for organisations at the early stages of identifying whether social investment would be the most suitable funding source for the organisation....
NAVCA responds to Select Committee enquiry on Big Society
NAVCA has responded to the Public Administration Select Committee enquiry into the Big Society. Our response addresed the committee's questions in particular: The impact...
NAVCA responds to Giving Green Paper
NAVCA has submitted their response to the government's Giving Green Paper. The response highlights examples of work by NAVCA members that has...
